The Shanghai Government: there is no relaxing real estate purchase of Shanghai housing | real estate | restriction | relax restrictions _ news

China News Agency, Shanghai, July 18 (Xinhua Tiffany Chin) for "Shanghai housing restriction relaxed" rumors, Xu Wei, 18th, spokesman for the Shanghai Municipal Government said that Shanghai has been strictly enforced since the country's real estate purchase policy, there is no relaxing restrictions.

Recently, the relaxed housing purchases in Chinese cities, 17th night have reported that certain district of Shanghai real estate purchase policies at the operational level have shown signs of loosening. As housing prices have held firm in Shanghai, the news immediately led to talk.

Xu Wei, responding briefly to show that Shanghai has the same day restriction "not relaxed" attitude.

In the context of the domestic property market generally downward, the Shanghai property market and sluggish in the first half of this year. According to the Shanghai Statistics Bureau figures released the same day, first half of the year, Shanghai's real estate industry 1.2% than a year ago, growth fell to 13.3%.

According to the Shanghai Statistics Bureau, the first half of the Shanghai real estate new construction area 10.5%, 20% drop in residential new construction area. Completed area of commercial buildings also fell 17.9% completed area of commercial housing dropped 12.2%.

Sales situation is equally bleak. Area of home sales declined by 18.6%, including 17.1% apartment sales area decreased.

Shanghai Municipal Bureau of statistics Chief Economist Jun Yan said that "this internal adjustment of the property sector, is conducive to the sustained and healthy development of the national economy. Development trend of Shanghai's real estate industry as a whole is steady. "(End)

(Original title: city officials: there is no relaxing real estate purchases)

(Edit: SN182)
16:40 on July 18, 2014 China News Network